> -----Original Message----- > From: License-discuss [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of John Cowan > Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 5:29 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [License-discuss] US Army Research Laboratory > Open Source License proposal > > Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US) scripsit: > > > Finally, there is opinion within the US Government that while there is > > no US copyright protection, copyright attaches outside of the US. > > Thus, if a project is downloaded and used outside of the USA, then any > > work produced by a US Government employee will have foreign copyright > > protection, and the terms of the License should apply to that copyright as > > well. > > Presumably it's the US government that holds the foreign copyright, since > its employees are making works made for hire.
Yes. > You should probably add back "copyright holder" so that the license can be > applied to works made as a whole or in part by contractors. We're actually dealing with contractors separately, by having them assign copyright back to the Government, and then using the Apache 2.0 license directly. What we're working on is the more difficult case where the code has been developed entirely by Government employees. In that case, there is no copyright to assign initially, and we still need a license to cover the code in some way. In addition, other Government workers may choose to contribute to a project. If they do it as a part of their official duties, then the work they contribute has no copyright; the license needs to apply to those contributions as well. All that said, contributions from the public and persons or entities that have copyright need to be covered the same way as the Apache 2.0 license would cover the contributions. > The Appendix still says "Apache License". Whoops! The headaches of keeping a plain text, LaTeX, and HTML version of the license around... Now fixed in my copy. > John Cowan Caution-http://www.ccil.org/~cowan [email protected] > If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on > my shoulders. --Hal Abelson I like the quote. Thanks, Cem Karan
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